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PostPosted: 18 Dec 2024Posted in HeadlinesThemes: Education for all (Inclusion), Keeping children safe

Festive fun at Cognus Families’ Christmas Event

More than 25 families enjoyed an afternoon at Cognus’ offices in Wallington on Monday 16th December, as we hosted our third Cognus Families’ Christmas Event. This event was an opportunity for families we work with to attend an information fair covering many local services that support children and young people in Sutton, including Sutton Information, […]

PostPosted: 17 Dec 2024Posted in Headlines

SEND success: A time for reflection of 2024

2024 has been a big year for Cognus’ SEND Team and the families we support. Our team has written, co-produced and issued 347 new EHCPs, reviewed and maintained 2,540 EHCPs, and processed more than 500 Requests to Assess and 380 Requests to Issue. Behind these numbers is close collaboration with families, colleagues, schools and other […]

PostPosted: 9 Dec 2024Posted in Headlines

Joint Working to support a secondary school pupil with Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)

Below is an overview of how two Speech and Language Therapists have worked together to support and empower a student with specific and ongoing speech difficulties, devising and implementing functional and meaningful goals with the student Next steps for speech and language therapy: Jodie will carry out a questionnaire to find out what future speech […]

PostPosted: 6 Dec 2024Posted in Headlines

Therapies Post 16 Assessment Clinic achieves success for another year!

The Academic Year 2023-24 saw the continuation of Cognus Therapies Post 16 Assessment Clinic. Emma Perridge (Occupational Therapist, OT) and Ashlea Stephens (Speech and Language Therapist, SaLT) set up the clinic in September 2022, following a number of referrals into the Therapies service for the same young people (both OT and SaLT assessments and reports). […]

PostPosted: 2 Dec 2024Posted in Headlines

Safeguarding and Education Psychology launch newly developed Reflective Safeguarding Supervision for Schools

The role of the DSL and safeguarding team is forever expanding. It is important that DSLs have a safe space to share reflections on practice – what is going well, what is causing frustration and what would help to improve things. We are so proud of the DSL Network in our local area. What they do daily […]

PostPosted: 1 Nov 2024Posted in HeadlinesTheme: Keeping children safe

Cognus Education Safeguarding Manager attends Children’s Care First Awards 2024

On Saturday 26th October, Hayley Cameron (Education Safeguarding Manager) was invited to attend the Children’s Care First Awards 2024. This gave us the opportunity to listen to people with lived experience of being in the care system. It was so uplifting being in a room with so many different agencies all working together to improve […]

PostPosted: 1 Oct 2024Posted in Headlines

Sutton LSCP holds Child Sexual Abuse Learning Event to raise awareness of the impact of ‘under reporting’ across all agencies

On Thursday 26th September, the LSCP held a learning event at The Chaucer Centre to talk about Child Sexual Abuse and the barriers to reporting, which is an issue both locally and nationally. Hayley Cameron (Education Safeguarding Manager, Cognus) was on the working party to develop this event and worked with both primary and secondary […]

PostPosted: 17 Sep 2024Posted in HeadlinesThemes: Education for all (Inclusion), Keeping children safe

#AttendToAchieve is Green To Go

Following a period of implementation we are delighted to be able to share that we have now reached a point where Sutton is deemed ‘Green’ on our self-assessment, by the Department for Education (DfE) in our implementation of the ‘working together to improve school attendance’ duties. This is fantastic news for the Cognus, the Local […]

PostPosted: 17 Sep 2024Posted in HeadlinesThemes: Education for all (Inclusion), Therapies

Social GGRRAAACCEEESSS supervision session is success for SaLTs

Speech and Language Therapists and Occupational Therapists working for Cognus Therapies were recently offered valuable in-service training from Cognus’ Educational Psychology Team on ‘Managing Difficult Conversations’. Principal Educational Psychologist, Nicholas (Nick) English delivered this training at Cognus’ offices, Cantium House in May 2024 to a large group of interested therapists. As part of the training, […]

PostPosted: 2 Sep 2024Posted in HeadlinesThemes: Education for all (Inclusion), Keeping children safe

Cognus Education Safeguarding Manager talks about her ‘why’ and the importance of safeguarding supervision and networking.

Last term, Hayley Cameron (Education Safeguarding Manager) was invited to be a guest speaker at a virtual event hosted by Foster Inspire. This provided the opportunity to not only share her story in terms of how she came to work in safeguarding and the reasons behind what she does today, but also to promote Cognus […]